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First Plane
The Wright Brothers are successful in the 1st planned flight. They flew 120 feet in 12 seconds. -
World War I
World War I or also referred to as First World War was a global conflict fought between the Allies and the Central Powers. Battles took place throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. -
WWI ends
After more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. -
League Of Nations
The first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
First Winter Olympic Games
Also officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Chamonix 1924, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany sends troops into Poland. England and France declare war on Germany. Poland was invaded on the East side from the Soviets. -
Bases Deal
The US gives 50 old destroyers to the British in exchange to use 8 of there Atlantic bases. -
Draft Bill
This Selective Service Act required that men who had reached their 21st birthday but had not yet reached their 36th birthday register with local draft boards. -
Pearl Harbor
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, -
War on Japan
Congress approved FDR's request to declare war on Japan. Entering the US into WWII -
United States at War
Four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire. Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a "series of provocations" by the United States government. -
Bombing Germany
This is the first bombing in Germany bringing the war to there home-front. -
Rome Fall
Rome Falls to the Allied Forces -
D-Day
Put the Allies on a decisive path toward victory. Beginning with the Normandy beaches, they pushed back against Axis forces. The first of nearly 3 million Allied soldiers arrive in Normandy, on the northern shores of France. -
Holocaust
Genocide of European and Jews during World War II. Started 1941 and didn't end until 1945, killing over 6 million Jews. -
Battle Remagen
The US Army's surprise capture of the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen causing Germany to surrender. -
Hitlers Death
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by a gunshot to the head. -
Hiroshima
First Atomic bomb attack on Japan. Killing 180,000 -
Nagasak
The Second atomic bomb attack on Japan. Killing 80,000 -
V-J Day
Proclaimed Victory over Japan (VJ) Day, although the signing of the official instrument of surrender was not to occur until September 2nd, 1945. -
End WWII
After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, and the Second World War came to an end. The war cost the lives of more than 330,000 American soldiers. -
United Nations Founded
The main purposes is to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among other nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nation. -
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Korean War
This war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
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Vietnam War
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
During the Peaceful Revolution, marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain -
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Gulf War
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people. -
Centennial Olympic Park Bombing
A domestic terrorist pipe bombing attack on Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia -
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. -
Columbine High School massacre
This shooting had 15 dead, including the two students responsible for the attack. At the time it was one of the deadliest school shooting incidents in American history. -
Y2K Computer Problem
When complex computer programs were first written in the 1960s, engineers used a two-digit code for the year, leaving out the "19." As the year 2000 approached, many believed that the systems would not interpret the "00" correctly, therefore causing a major glitch in the system. -
9/11
Were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United States of America. 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast to California.
Killing 2,996 people. -
No Child Left Behind
This act changed the federal government's role in kindergarten through grade twelve education by requiring schools to demonstrate their success in terms of the academic achievement of every student.